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#ACCMedStudent, it's Day 2 of #ACC21! Benefits of virtual meeting⏪old sessions available onDemand.

Great @ACCinTouch session yesterday on Advanced Heart Failure Therapies, ending w/ debate on Transplant vs. LVAD! #ACCHFT

🧵on some take-home points from the 6 presentations
1/ Moving Beyond NYHA Class #ACC21
Vague w/ wide inter & intra observer variability
Utility breaks down in advanced HF

🌟Reclassifying advanced HF: INTERMACS Profiles (lower score = sicker) helps prognosis/triage

🔑Assign profile after identifying features of advanced HF
2/ Cardiac Transplantation #ACC21

♦️ Strategies to expand cardiac donor pool➡️ donation after circulatory death (DCD) - first performed in Duke Dec 2019

♦️ Advances in post-transplant care➡️prevention of cardiac allograft vasculopathy & molecular tools for rejection monitoring
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